What is a year (as in Year of the Eucharist)?

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The Pope recently convoked the Year of the Eucharist, which begins this year in October and ends October 2005. When a “year” is convoked, is it done at any time? How is it determined when a “year” will start?
 
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The Pope recently convoked the Year of the Eucharist, which begins this year in October and ends October 2005. When a “year” is convoked, is it done at any time? How is it determined when a “year” will start?
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John Paul II said that he convoked the “Year of the Eucharist” because the program he presented to the Church at the start of the millennium is based on “starting afresh from Christ.” This century is dedicated to the Eucharist as center to Catholic life.

The reason he convoked the Year of the Eucharist to begin this October, was to coincide with the International Eucharistic Congress scheduled to be held in Guadalajara, Mexico.

The “year” will end in October 2005 with the ordinary assembly of the Synod of Bishops, whose theme will be “The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church.”

So a Pope can convene a year at anytime but usually it is set in the context of highlighting specific events through a particular year (not nessecarily calandar year) so it flows from beginning to end with the same theme.
 
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